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What is the role of official morality?

From the point of view of status and role, official morality belongs to the category of social morality, and also plays a leading and driving role in social morality, reflecting and embodying the overall level of social morality.

Traditional Chinese society is an ethical society with deep and broad ethical thinking, among which the Confucian ethical and moral concepts have the most profound and long-lasting influence. The history of China from the Spring and Autumn Period to modern times can be said to be a history of the gradual transformation of Confucian ethical and moral concepts into the state ideology, social system, and folk rituals and customs; Confucian ethics and morality, as the basic norms guiding people's behavior, have long occupied a fundamental position in the controlling power of the state.